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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To save money and lives, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, past commander (1932-33) of the American Legion, last summer banned U. S. Army Air Corps planes and personnel from non-military exhibitions, that is, from flying at fairs, civic celebrations, etc. Sole exception: American Legion conventions. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Exception Noted | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Self-styled a "national forum for problems of distribution," the Boston conference generally produces more concrete discussions than do broader conclaves like the International Management Congress. As a basis for this year's chief topic, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce submitted a history of the U. S. census...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Politics & Statistics | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Secretary of War Harry Woodring tonight branded Major General George Van Horn Mosely as "flagrantly disloyal" for issuing a retirement statement at Atlanta, Ga., in which he assailed administration polices and inferred that the country was headed toward a dictatorship.

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

One of the largest small businessmen invited by Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper to a Conference of Little Business in Washington last February was DeWitt McKinley Emery-6 ft. 6 in. When that conference became a circus it made red-headed Mr. Emery very angry. Two months previously he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Little Men, Chapter Two | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Solider-looking of the two was Old Haven, a 559-page novel laid in a small fishing village on the North Sea. Despite its wholly Dutch characters and background, it is only semi-Dutch. Author Dejong, a slight, redheaded, 33-year-old ex-bank clerk, soda-jerker, gravedigger and onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Below Sea Level | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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